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Autograph Book featuring signatures of the Members of the House of Representatives, Tennessee Legislature, 1875-1876. Brown leather binding with gilt stenciled cover and gilt page edges. Includes signatures of leading Tennesseans of the day such as Hugh Dunlap Greer, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Tennessee 38th Regiment, Henry Richard Gibson, and Benton McMillin. Gibson, who […]

Photographic Album belonging to Nashville photographer C. C. Giers, containing approximately 110 CDVs of members of Nashville's York Rite Commandery of Knights Templar, including President Andrew Johnson. Album cover embossed "Sir Knight Chas. C. Giers Nashville Commandery No. 1 at KT " (Note: Giers was listed in some early documents as "Charles" and "Carl" alternately). […]

Land sale document between two of Tennessee's most important early figures, Col. Hardy Murfree and Gen. James Robertson, signed by Murfree; also signed by John McNairy, one of Tennessee's first federal judges. The indenture is dated April 7, 1794, before Tennessee became a state. It records the transfer of 440 acres in Sumner County, "in […]

Important land indenture signed by James Robertson, the explorer and co-founder of Nashville, concerning a transfer of property between himself and John Davis, a fellow early settler and surveyor of Nashville. The document, executed March 20, 1795, records Robertson selling 440 acres of land in Sumner County to his friend Davis (in fact, Davis's daughter […]

Exceptionally early Tennessee land grant, dated 1790 and signed by North Carolina governor Alexander Martin, partially printed document granting 640 acres in Davidson County North Carolina (later Tennessee) on the Harpeth River to Thomas McDaniel, a private in the Continental Line, in consideration of his "signal bravery and persevering zeal". Numbered 1204. It is accompanied […]

Sam Houston signed land document, granting John Davis, Aaron Franklin, and Parham Strange "80 acres on the waters of Sams Creek…." dated Feb. 5, 1828. 15 1/2" x 12 1/2". Note: Sam Houston's term as Tennessee governor lasted from 1827 until 1829, when he resigned and moved to Texas. Houston (1793-1863) later became the President […]

James K. Polk signed land document, as Tennessee Governor, granting 225 acres in Davidson County to John Davis. Mentions property of John Harding as a boundary line. Dated February 22, 1840. 15 1/2" x 12". Provenance: the estate of John Davis descendant Sarah Hunter Hicks Green, formerly of Historic Devon Farm, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Small […]

James K. Polk signed land document, as Tennessee Governor, granting 115 acres in Davidson County to John Davis. Mentions property of William Harding and Robert Hill as adjacent boundary lines. Dated May 13, 1840. 15" x 12". Provenance: the estate of John Davis descendent Sarah Hunter Hicks Green, formerly of Historic Devon Farm, Nashville, Tennessee. […]

19th century portrait of a Devon Farm cow in a landscape setting by livestock illustration artist Lou Burk (American, 1845-1914). Signed and dated '85 lower right. Housed in the original silver-gilt frame with molded clover motif. 20" x 16" sight, 20" x 24" framed. Note: Devon Farm was nationally known for its production of Devon […]

Sam Houston signed land document, granting John Davis, assignee of Frederick Davis (father of John Davis), five and a half acres in the first district of Davidson County, "on the west side of the Big Harpeth River and on the lower side of the narrows bend…" dated Sept. 25, 1828. 12 1/4" x 15 7/8". […]